Early post-perihelion view of Halley's Comet at dawn,February 22,1986,overlooking Imperial Valley from Laguna Mts.,Southern California. Halley is the only naked-eye comet certain to return within a human lifetime (every 75 year or so). It derives its name from Edmond Halley,an eighteenth-century astronomer who computed its orbit. The comet has been observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC | |
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